History is made at night

Martin C. ( Beyond the Implode ) and John Eden ( Uncarved ) have put together a great if suitably chaotic anarcho -punk mix/podcast, release...

Last Saturday night's squat party in central London seems to have generated a huge amount of press interest, not all of it accurate. Scu...

David See 'was a finalist in the Music Week National DJ '77 Championship' and writer for Disco International. In 1980, Hamlyn (L...

I went to Cafe Oto in Dalston a couple of weeks ago for a reading by two members of Wu Ming, the Italian writing collective responsible fo...

Sad news about the death this week of Ari Up ( Ariane Forster), former lead singer of The Slits. She was only 48, incredibly she was only 1...

From Miami Herald, 14 October 2010: 'Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of...

Courtesy of 56a Info Shop in SE London, I have recently had access to an archive of radical publications from the early 1980s, in particula...

For those who never stop complaining that there isn't enough dub in dubstep comes news that Tectonic Recordings are releasing a whole a...

All I need in this creation Is 3 months work, 9 vacation Tell the boss, any old time The daytime is his, but the nighttime's mine Photo:...

54 by Italian collective author Wu Ming is a novel set in 1954, with a fine plot involving the mafia, secret services, communist ex-partis...

My recent hypothesis that the vuvuzela is becoming the protest instrument of choice for the emerging movement against austerity has received...

The Turner Prize 2010 exhibition is now open at Tate Britain, with at least three of the four short-listed artists having strong musical con...

Over at Datacide, Christoph has been publishing texts from Alien Underground, a great zine published in South London in 1994/95 offerin ...

Cold, dark and wet in the drizzle, down by the river Thames on Friday night looking for a party. Boom boom boom - the sound of gabber in the...

A couple of weeks ago (16 September) I wandered down to the Waterloo headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, where hundreds of firefighter...

Rob Young’s Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music is an ambitious, accomplished and entertaining survey of 100 years of music-...

As discussed here earlier this year, Shoreditch-based club Plastic People was threatened with losing its license, prompting a wave of const...

A British government in debt following an expensive war seeks to make people pay through unpopular policies - sounds familiar? This instance...

Stephen Biko, anti-Apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, died at the hands of the South African police on this...

On this day (12 September) in 1973, the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara was arrested by the military and taken to the Chile Stadium. The da...

Sid Rawle, a key figure in the free festival movement in the UK, died last month aged 64. His activism encompassed the Hyde Park Diggers in ...